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<blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 9336081" data-attributes="member: 29398">As a player, even though we're in theory on our way to an adventure at point B I'm almost always on the lookout for side treks and other adventures even if it means we might never get to point B (it's happened, now and then).&nbsp; Also, do they really want to go to point B or are they going there because it's the only option they've been given?Put another way, unless the DM wants to run the game on rails there's really no such thing as &quot;pointless&quot;.As you're narrating to a character with the sailor background, who in theory knows a bit about ships and how to tell one apart from another, unless these ships were very foreign I'd give a far more detailed answer to the bolded question than what the DM gives here; indicating differences in type, likely speed, condition and upkeep, rough-weather resistance, and so on.Unless the differences were blatant, the &quot;not that you can tell&quot; answer is what someone who's never seen a ship might get.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lanefan, post: 9336081, member: 29398"] As a player, even though we're in theory on our way to an adventure at point B I'm almost always on the lookout for side treks and other adventures even if it means we might never get to point B (it's happened, now and then). Also, do they really want to go to point B or are they going there because it's the only option they've been given? Put another way, unless the DM wants to run the game on rails there's really no such thing as "pointless". As you're narrating to a character with the sailor background, who in theory knows a bit about ships and how to tell one apart from another, unless these ships were very foreign I'd give a far more detailed answer to the bolded question than what the DM gives here; indicating differences in type, likely speed, condition and upkeep, rough-weather resistance, and so on. Unless the differences were blatant, the "not that you can tell" answer is what someone who's never seen a ship might get. [/QUOTE]

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